From:	Johan Levin <johan AT technologist DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: arrow keys
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:40:09 +0100
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zixyer wrote:
> 
> this is probably a silly question, but how do you trap the arrow keys
> using the standard c library? :P thanks
> 
>                                         -zixyer

When a arrow key is pressed you get two characters from getch().
The first one is 0 end the second one is the correct code.
Down  72
Right 75
Left  77
Up    80

/Johan Levin

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